Folk interesting couplet story collection

Yang Jisheng's Interesting Couplet Stories

Yang Jisheng was a famous person in the Ming Dynasty who was known for his "skillful couplets". He was born in Rongcheng, Hebei Province, and entered the land of Jiajing. According to legend, he "made every pair, people always say good". To this day, there are still many folk tales of his skillful pairing.

Legend has it that when Yang Jisheng was just enrolled in a private school, one day an older student came to the private school, and the private school teacher, seeing such an old man, also came to the school, came out with a pair of mockery:

Old student

Who knows that once the words were finished, it was sitting on the sidelines of Yang Jisheng took over without thinking:

Smaller scholar

The old student, who had been a student in the private school for many years, was a good student of Yang Jisheng, and he was a good student. The gentleman who mocked the "old student" was shocked and said, "This child is so young and smart, he will have a bright future!

On one occasion, Mr. Private School went out, the students, the students made a game of battle. Are playing in the heat of the moment, unexpectedly Mr. suddenly returned, everyone panicked and hid around. Mr. anger, one by one, kneeling, and out of the pair;

Hiding and hiding;

called students on, the first out of the exemption from punishment, the right not continue to kneel. Only to see Yang Jisheng slight smile, answer the right:

Hide the name of the name.

Mr. face of anger, suddenly swept away, exclaimed: "This is absolutely also!" Reach out and pull Yang Jisheng up. From then on, Yang Jisheng is famous for being good at pairs. In the private school from the teacher for ten years, Yang Jisheng also made a lot of popular couplets. For example, his cousin Xin Tiyuan came to visit. There was no wine in the house, so he went to the hotel to buy some, and it happened that the wine was sold out. Xin Tiyuan came up with a couplet and said:

No wine is the poor master;

Only to hear a slightly childish voice replied:

There are children for the famous minister.

Xin Tiyuan vision sweep, the original response is actually small Jisheng, can not help but tsk praise. Yang Jisheng grew up, really became a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, the official to the Ministry of Military Affairs. At that time, Yan Song, a treacherous minister, was in power, and Yang Jisheng was deported four times within a year because of his loyalty and outspokenness. The last time, on the way to be deported, he drafted the "ten sins and five traitors" impeachment Yan Song, the result was framed and imprisoned, tortured and killed.

This is the first time he has been arrested for the crime of impeaching Yan Song.

This famous couplet was written by Yang Jisheng in prison. It is a powerful couplet, showing that he had a strong heart and a strong iron bone.

The boy who sells firewood is a wonderful pair into the family school

During the Ming Dynasty, in Wu County, Jiangsu Province, there was a "child prodigy", surnamed Shi Pan. Shi disk family is very poor, can not afford to go to school, he started at the age of five, he went up the mountain to cut firewood, cut grass to sell money! At the same time, the use of time, secretly, from the village of an old showman, learning to recognize words, reading, poetry, compositions. Shi Pan was nine years old, he went to the city to sell firewood, passing by a private school, listening to the sound of books coming out of it, he wanted to enter the private school as a student. Just at this time, the owner of the private school Zhang Du Xian sedan chair home, found the small Shi Pan, Zhang Du Xian asked him, standing here for what, the small Shi Pan mumbled, said he wanted to enter the private school to study the desire. Zhang He Xian heard, laughed and said: "poor boy also want to enter my home private school, do not think about their own identity." After the small Shi Pan repeatedly pleaded, Zhang Du Xian said: "so, I come up with a couplet, as long as you can on, I can make an exception to let the private school teacher to accept you." Zhang Hexian out of the epigraph is:

The new moon like a bow, the waning moon like a bow, the upper string bow, the lower string bow;

This epigraph even use four "bow" word, two "moon", "string

This top line uses four "bow" characters, two "moon" and "string" characters. Zhang Du Xian thought that this time, must be difficult to defeat this firewood seller boy. However, after listening to the couplet, he smiled and said, "I can't afford the tuition fee, but I can't beat the couplet."

The sunrise is like a brocade, the sunset is like a brocade, the east river is like a brocade, the west river is like a brocade.

Shi Pan's next couplet, which uses four characters of "Jin" and two characters of "Xia" and "Chuan" in a row, fully meets the requirements of Zhang Du Xian's previous couplet, and uses the characters of "Chao" and "Chuan". The words "morning" and "evening" are used to match the words "new" and "residual", and the words "east" and "west" are used to match the words "new" and "residual".

Cutting the melon to split the guest

Jiang To, a young writer in the Ming Dynasty, when he was young, he was very talented, and his answers were well known in the countryside.

One day, his grandfather, took him to a temple to play. Jiang To jumped down from the high steps and reached the bottom in three jumps. When his grandfather saw this, he laughed and said:

Three jumps, down to the ground;

Jiang To looked up at the bottom, and saw a little bird in the tree, which flew up to the sky with a "puff", and he immediately said:

One flight, up to the sky.

Grandpa was very happy and praised him.

On one occasion, his father's friends came to visit, and they were sitting around the living room reciting poems and couplets, when suddenly dark clouds spread out, followed by a strong wind, and in a while it started to rain heavily, and the rain hit the windows in a "splatting" manner. One of the guests saw the raindrops on the window paper, and was touched by the situation, and came up with a couplet to ask for the right answer:

Freezing rain sprinkled on the window, two points east, three points west;

The meaning of this couplet is that, at this moment, the cold raindrops, hitting the window, the east side of the window, there are raindrops, and the west side of the window, there are also raindrops. Literally speaking, the character for "freezing rain" is composed of "east" and two dots, and the character for "sprinkling windows" is "sprinkling". The character "洒" in "洒窗" is composed of "西" and three dots. In this way, the couplet not only illustrates the scene of rain hitting the window at that time, but also explains the composition of the words "freezing" and "sprinkling". In this way, the next couplet is not quite right. The second half of the sentence is required to be related to the first half of the sentence, and the first two words of the first half of the sentence have to be spelled out, which is really difficult. The guests here are thinking hard, racking their brains, difficult to deal with, the parlor was silent for a while.

Then, the servant brought the melon, Jiang To's father, quickly cut the melon into slices, and invited the guests to eat melon. Standing on the sidelines to see his father cut the melon, the guests eat melon Jiang To, the scene, said loudly: "I come to the next couplet". Then he chanted:

Cutting the melon and dividing it among the guests, seven knives across and eight knives down.

When the words came out, the audience gasped. Jiang To's first half of the couplet "cut the melon and split the guests", said the melon eating at that time. The second half of the sentence, "seven knives across" and "eight knives down" refers to the cutting of melons and is directly related to the first half of the sentence. At the same time, the words "seven" and "knives" look horizontally from left to right, and together they are the first word "cut" in the first half of the sentence; "eight" "knife" up and down vertically, together is the third word "divided". It is really a wonderful double entendre and full of interest. The guests all marveled at it.

Smaller than Qian answer to show literary talent

Yu Qian, (1398 - 1457) word Tingyi, Zhejiang Qiantang (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang) people. Ming Dynasty, water music into the earth, the famous national hero (1). He was diligent and studious at an early age, with high aspirations. Read the reading that is recited, the sentence of the export of all become. Once, Yu Qian's mother wore his hair in a double bun to school, and one day, a monk named Lan Gu Chun saw him. One day, a monk named Lan Guchun saw him and teased him, saying:

The head of a cow is happy to have a cow's horn;

Yu Qian immediately responded:

How could a dog's mouth ever produce ivory?

Lan Guchun made a fool of himself and hurried away. When Yu Qian returned home, he said to his mother, "I can't wear a double bun for me anymore. After a few days, Lan Guchun happened to pass by the school again, saw Yu Qian's hair combed into three branches, so once again play:

Triangle as a drum;

Yu Qian with the sound of the response:

One bald like a mallet.

Lan Guchun praised him for his quick thinking, and said to Qian's teacher: "When this boy grows up, he will surely be a pillar of the country."

One year during the Ching Ming Festival, Yu Qian went with his family to visit his ancestors' graves, and when he passed by the Phoenix Terrace, his uncle gave him a couplet for him to answer, which reads:

The same person went to the Phoenix Terrace in the same day;

Yu Qian responded at once:

The same person occupied the Kirin Pavilion in the same year.

The adults listened and were pleasantly surprised by this ambitious couplet, and his uncle said, "This little boy, is our family's thousand-mile colt!"

On the way back from sweeping the tomb, he passed by a pagoda with three words written on it: Dec Xin Street

Yu Qian's uncle said: "These three words of the name of the place, the first two words belong to the Heavenly Stem (i.e., A, B, C, D, E, F, G, C, N, N, D), and I'm afraid it's not easy to match the name of the place with a pair of pairs." Unexpectedly, Xiaoyu Qian with (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written about the name of Shaanxi, said:

Ziwutai

His uncle and clansmen, listened to the more surprised and delighted, because the name of this place, the first two words are exactly the Earth's branch (i.e., Zi, ugly, c, d, e, chen, has been, noon, not yet, shen, you, huxu, hu, hu, ohai) in the two words, and (kuixinjie) is just into a good pair.

After two years, Yu Qian became a county student. At that time, an inspector visited a temple in his hometown. One of the officials in his entourage pointed to the statue of Buddha in the temple and said:

Three big Buddhas, sitting lion, sitting elephant, sitting lotus;

No one was right. Yu Qian happened to be present, he casually responded:

A scholar, climbing phoenix, climbing dragon, climbing Guizi.

The crowd clapped their hands and said it was marvelous.

Note: (1) Ming Zhengtong fourteen (1449) years in the fall, Washou (a Mongolian tribe) invasion, Yingzong was captured. At that time, Yu Qian, Secretary of the Ministry of War, embraced Emperor Jing, against the south, and personally supervised the battle, defeated the Wabi army, so that the situation turned to peace, so it is called a national hero.

How do you know that a fish does not turn into a dragon

Qiu Jun, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, (1418-1495) was a native of Qiongshan (present-day Qiongshan, Guangdong). When he was young, he was studying in a school. One day, when the rain was pouring down, some seats were leaking, so everyone fought for the seats that were not leaking, and the one who fought with Qiu Joon for the seat was the son of a local nobleman, and the two of them didn't want to give way to each other. The teacher saw this and said, "Don't fight, I have a five-word couplet, if you can match it, you can sit in a good place." Then he read:

The rain is dripping from his shoulders;

The son of the nobleman was dumbfounded and couldn't get it right, but Qiu Joon, who had a good grasp of the situation, got it right:

The green clouds were born under his feet.

The teacher heard this and had to give Qiu Joon the seat that was not leaking rain.

The son of Hsien Kuoi was not convinced, and came home from school and cried to his father about the fight for the seat. When he came home from school, he cried to his father about the seat dispute. When he heard this, he was furious and called Qiu Joon to his home, and as soon as he met him, he furiously said:

Whoever said that a dog can bully a tiger?

Qiu Joon smiled in contempt and replied:

How do you know that a fish does not become a dragon?

His Excellency was shocked to hear that Qiu Joon is not an ordinary person, and he will be successful when he grows up, so he had no choice but to let him go back.

Qiu Joon grew up to be a great man. He was awarded a bachelor's degree during the Jingtai period, and was appointed as an editorial adviser during the Chenghua period. When Emperor Xiaozong came to the throne, he became the Minister of Rites, and also a university scholar in the Wen Yuan Pavilion, and participated in the affairs of the machine. He was a learned man by nature, opposed to the "literature of danger and weirdness", and was familiar with the national canon. He thought that the entry of ruling the country and leveling the world in the Diffraction of the University written by Xia Dexiu was not complete, so he collected all the books (1) and supplemented it, which was called Diffraction of the University Supplement. In his later years, he lost the sight of his right eye, but he continued to read and peruse the book.

Note: (1) Xia Dexiu (278 - 335) Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, scholars. Jianzhou Pucheng (now Fujian Pucheng). Qingyuan scholar. His philosophical views inherited from Er Cheng and Zhu Xi, and advocated: "Collecting peace of mind and cultivating virtue". He is the author of Xishan Wenji and Diffractions of the University.

Yang Pu's clever exemption from father's service

Yang Pu (1379 - 1446), the word Hongji, Shishou (now Shishou, Hubei) people. He was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. He was a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty. He served as a bachelor of Hanlin, Wuying Hall, and the Ministry of Rites and other positions. He and Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, through the four dynasties (Chengzu, Renzong, Xuanzong, Yingzong), collectively known as the Cabinet (three Yang).

Yang Pu's family was poor when he was young, and his father was old and sickly. Under such a family situation, he was tireless and studied hard, and although he was young, his literary talent was extraordinary.

On one occasion, the magistrate sent someone to catch his father to serve hard labor, at that time, his father was sick, Yang Pu went to the county office, pleaded again and again, asked to be exempted from hard labor, the magistrate looked at him as a small child, it is difficult, said: "I'll give a pair of couples, such as you on, I can release your father."

Then came the couplet:

The four mouths are the same as the map, the inner mouth are under the control of the outer mouth;

This couplet is a marvelous idea, the magistrate utilized the structure of the word "map" and folded the word to start with the meaning of, which is to say: "In the scope of my rule, the people must submit to my jurisdiction. ." The official said, "The people must obey me when I am under my rule."

Yang Pu listened to this and realized that the magistrate liked to be flattered, and after a moment's thought, he made a couplet:

Five people **** umbrellas, and the small people are all dependent on the adults to cover them up.

Yang Pu this couplet, is also the use of "analysis of the method", split the "umbrella" word, not only to express their own request, but also complimented the magistrate, and the pair of neat, appropriate expression, therefore, the magistrate had to nod his head and praise, and finally pardoned his father's labor.

Note: (Editor: (1) official name. The Hanlin Academy of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the editor, to a two-three jinshi and the concubine jishi stayed in the museum, no fixed membership, and no actual position. Responsible for repairing the national history, the actual record, will be.

Xu General childhood wonderful pair

Xu General (IO45--1111) Fujian Min County (now Fuzhou) people. He was the first scholar in the eighth year of Song Renzong Xiyou's reign (163 years). When he was a child, he was smart, hard-working and talented, and was known as the "little prodigy".

Xu will be nine years old that summer, following the family tour of Baiyan Mountain, on the way back, because of the dry food, thirst, so to the vegetable garden fence old man to ask for tea. Fence old man, have long known, standing in front of the child, is a local famous "small child prodigy", and did not immediately give the tea, but put forward the conditions to him, said: "Little brother, to drink tea of course, but to ask you to the right, I have a hidden in the heart of many years, can not be out of the top line, you will be out of the bottom line! , before I give the tea."

The young Xu will be very thirsty, but know how to respect the elders, but very polite and humble, said, "Please old uncle enlightenment, let the little boy to see."

The old man, with his own fence, read out the couplet:

A hedge, two wefts and three piles caught in the vegetable garden, the garden planted spring, summer, fall and winter vegetables;

There is no lack of literati among the clan members who traveled with Xu General, and they heard the couplet, and they had no words to cope with it, so they couldn't help him, and they were in a hurry and were afraid that he wouldn't be able to get the right answer.

The young Xu will, winking, patting the little head, unhurriedly to the next couplet:

Hundreds of shelves, thousands of tiers, ten thousand volumes of stacked library, the collection of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign books.

When Xu finished his sentence, the crowd clapped their hands and said it was marvelous. The old man who surrounded the fence also secretly admired it when he heard it. "The pair is good, but I do not know whether he got it by chance, or real talent." He thought to himself, "Let's try another pair. So, the old uncle opened his mouth and said, "Little brother, how about letting me give another pair?" Xiao Xu couldn't drink any tea, and his mouth became even thirstier. But still, he patiently and respectfully replied, "Please teach me." The old man then to their today's tourist attraction Baiyan Mountain as the title, Kan read:

White rock white mist white roses, such as the view of the jade petri dish;

The same tourists heard the above couplet, know that the old man is the rhetorical device of the compound word, racking their brains, want to help the small Xu will be a hand.

The old man's name is "Touhong Temple" ("托红寺") on the Lotus Rock (莲花岩), and the red temple reflects the sunset; the red azalea blooming on the Tortoise Peak ("玳瑁峰").

The old man was so happy to hear this that he threw up his hands and called it wonderful. Immediately out of the top white rock tea, Xiao Xu will take over the tea, just want to drink, the old man called: "slow!" side in the tea cup, plus the fragrance of the tea cup, the old man said. Side in the tea cup, plus the fragrant jasmine. At this time, the old man found the moon shadow, reflected in the cup of tea, see the scene, and called out: "Slow! Another couplet." With read out:

Tea drinker swallowed the moon in the cup;

This couplet, not only difficult to travel with the literati, but also really difficult to small Xu will. At this time, the small Xu will be holding a tantalizing aroma of tea, do not dare to send to the mouth, he lowered his head to think hard, difficult to get a good sentence, had to raise his head, to look around to answer the material, when he found the water well, there is a sister-in-law in the water, a moment of enlightenment! He exclaimed happily, "I've got it!" Then he read aloud:

The water is pumped by a star in the well.

The crowd shouted in unison, and the old man was so happy that he even raised his beard and shouted again, "Slow down, little brother!" Everyone was stunned, thinking that he was going to make another problem. It turned out that he loved talent heart happy, smiling, and to Xu will be in the cup of tea, add cinnamon meat, and then said: "The little prodigy name is true, in the next day must be in the Scholar ah!"

After Xu will be in the first prize, successively served as editorial repair, Longtugu Pavilion service judge, Longtugu Pavilion straight Bachelor, Hanlin school soil, Shangshu left, right, etc., know Taizhou (now Tianshui County, Gansu Province), Yangzhou (now Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province), Yuncheng (now Pingdong, East China Province), etc. Jiu Ji Ji replied, "Father is son, father is son. Xining seven years (O244), the Khitan with 200,000 soldiers forced Daiju (present-day Yanmen County, Shanxi Province), the court ordered Xu will go north as an ambassador, and Khitan negotiations. Mr. Xu read a lot of information and made a good preparation. During the negotiation, he was able to answer all the questions and make the other side stupefied, and finally succeeded in the negotiation and saved himself from external danger.

The prodigy Xie Jin's spring couplets and couplets

Xie Jin (1369 - 1415) is a minister of the Ming Dynasty, Jishui (now Jiangxi Jishui), Hongwu years, a scholar. Xie Jiny small smart, quick thinking, and diligent and studious, at a young age, familiar with the "Four Books", "Five Classics". His articles, poetry, all proficient, especially good at the sentence, far and near called "prodigy". The following is the story of his childhood.

(1) write spring couplets

One New Year's Eve, the early ten-year-old Xie Jin, the scene, wrote a spring couplets:

Sun look at the Ganjiang River, thousands of miles of sails; Luling ten thousand lamps at night.

This spring couplet, attracted the neighbors to watch, people praise. The opposite of Xie Jin's house, is the residence of Cao Shangshu. The Minister, long heard the name of "prodigy", but do not quite believe that Xie Jin's literary talent, see this pair of spring couplets, but also can not help but secretly praise. Just always have some doubts, so, decided to think of an idea, to test Xie Jin. Cao Shangshu ordered, in the solution of the gate directly across the river embankment, planted a piece of bamboo, to block the solution of the family's "day look at the Ganjiang River thousands of miles of sails, the night view of Luling ten thousand lamps," the view.

The next New Year's Eve, Xie Jin and the door, posted a spring couplet:

The door to a thousand bamboo; home collection of ten thousand volumes of books.

Shangshu Cao saw, could not help but marvel. In order to test Xie Jin again, immediately people will cut the bamboo short. He went to see the Xie family's Spring Festival couplets, only to see the end of the couplet add a word, it became:

Door to the dry bamboo short; home collection of ten thousand books long.

Shangshu Cao was so angry that he ordered his family to root out the bamboo. At this time, Xie Jin also waved his pen at the end of the link, and then add a word, the link becomes:

Door to a thousand bamboo short; home collection of ten thousand books long.

Shangshu Cao had no choice but to send someone to send a big red invitation to Xie Jin, must meet this "prodigy" in person.

(2)Fighting Cao Shangshu

Xie Jin received a big red invitation from Cao Shangshu, and went to his house with him. Only to see the door is closed, the side door is wide open, then turn around and go back. Cao Shangshu in the door sneer:

Kid no talent is too narrow;

Jin heard, careless hum:

Roc wings hate the sky low.

Shangshu Cao had to open the door to welcome Xie Jin. He looked at a green Xie Jin, then chanted:

The toad in the water wears green;

Xie Jin laughed, pointing to the red-robed Cao Shangshu, tit-for-tat replied:

Shrimp in the pot is wearing a red robe.

Shangshu Cao was annoyed and scolded:

The two monkeys are felling trees deep in the mountains, and the little monkey dares to saw (sentence)?

Xie Jin also nonchalantly, immediately returned the color:

A horse fell into the sludge, how can the old animal out of the hoof (question).

The Hanlin Cao Shangshu, and a small child with a milky child, but not the slightest advantage, very reluctant, but the heart and have to admit that the "child prodigy" talented, witty and agile. Cao Shangshu did not stop there, and then invited to see the guests, he wanted to be the face of the crowd, once again test Xie Jin.

Cao sipped a mouthful of wine, in the face of the wall hanging a piece of ink, off the top of his head, said:

Drunken love Xizhi trace;

Xie Jin casually chanted:

Madly chanting "white also" (1) poem.

Cao immediately came out with another couplet:

Wind blowing the horse's tail a thousand lines;

Xie Jin immediately answered:

Sunlight dragon scales ten thousand points of gold.

The spectators were convinced by Xie Jin's ingenuity, and could not help but beat the rhythm, applauded. Cao Shangshu see has not been tested Xie Jin, very anxious, pointing to the painting on the screen, another couplet:

The dragon does not chant, the tiger does not whistle, the fish does not jump, the toad does not jump, laughing at the death of the head of the Liu Hai;

Xie Jin a little bit of thought, pointing to the case of the chess pieces replied:

Car without wheels, no saddle horse, elephant without teeth, cannon without fire, captured the general of Sei Nei.

Jie Jin has just finished, Cao Shangshu sweating on the forehead, but also refused to admit defeat, in a lecturing tone:

eyes, nostrils, beads are still in the hole;

Jie Jin meditated for a few moments, and then a couplet back:

Mr. Eyebrows, hair after the life of the latter, after the life of the latter than the gentleman long.

This couplet has a profound meaning and implies sarcasm, which is quite ingenious. The audience applauded and applauded, and Minister Cao was at a loss for words and could only feign drunkenness and retired.

(3) Three Birds with One Stone

Jie Jin's extraordinary talent, so that Cao Shangshu had to secretly admire. One day, he invited Jie Jin into the house, want to try, Jie Jin's recent studies, whether or not the growth of progress. So, you and I back and forth, and after a few couplets, Cao Shangshu has not prevailed. So, he used the last trick; the use of "harmonic" puns, trying to "one stone three birds" overwhelmed Xie Jin. He came up with a couplet:

The front of the court planted bamboo Mr. bamboo shoots;

Xie Jin immediately responded:

The back of the temple planted flowers and elders skills.

Shangshu Cao laughed and said, "The meaning of my first line is that the bamboo planted in front of the courtyard grows bamboo shoots first." Xie Jin said, "The meaning of my next couplet is that the flowers planted at the back of the temple grow old branches."

Shangshu Cao added: "My upper couplet has another interpretation. It says that the bamboo planted in the courtyard did not grow well, and the teacher cut it down, so it reads:

The gentleman who planted the bamboo in front of the courtyard lost it;

Xie Jin immediately went on to say, "My next couplet has another layer of meaning as well, which says that the flower planted at the back of the temple was blown diagonally by the wind, and the elders supported it with wooden sticks, so it reads:

The elders supported the flower planted at the back of the temple.

Shangshu Cao laughed loudly, "I don't know what I mean, but there is a third meaning in this first line, which is about planting bamboos in front of the court, and the teacher asks others what the reason is, so it's:

Mr. Bamboo in front of the court;

Xie Jin clapped his hands and laughed, "Your Honor, don't be anxious, I've got this one. The next couplet is also another interesting, is that after the temple planted on the flowers, the young monk rushed to tell the elders, the elders said they already know.

The monk said he had planted flowers behind the temple and told the Elder that he already knew about it.

Cao Shangshu "three birds with one stone", still not difficult to defeat the smart Xie Jin, can not help but sincerely praise him, "is really a world of talent! Cao Shangshu really love talent, happy, the daughter of the betrothal to Xie Jin.

Note: "White" is taken from the poet Du Fu's comment on Li Bai's poem, "White is invincible." This couplet is very narrow, "also" and "the" false word opposite, so that the couplet is very interesting and interesting.

Xie Jin Zhu Yuanzhang

Ming Hongwu twenty-two years (1389 years) in the spring, Xie Jin from his hometown in Jiangxi Jishui, the capital of Nanjing to participate in the examination. At that time, the imperial examination system provides: after passing the examination, to undergo a retest, the location of the emperor's court, called the "court test", or "temple test". The emperor personally examined.

Xie Jin in the test, the article, magnificent, sharp, simple words, won the examiner Liu Sango's praise, point him as a scholar. As some people oppose, the reason is to say that he, countermeasures speech is too high. The temple examination was ordered as the seventh scholar. Xie Jin's elder brother Xie Lun, brother-in-law Jin Jinhua, at the same time high school three A into the earth.

Solution of the family "a door three scholar", not only stirred the city of Jiangxi Jishui, also stirred the capital. Long live the master Zhu Yuanzhang, learned that the Jiangxi short into the earth, not only good article, especially good on the right, will be called into the palace, personally out of the question interview.

Zhu Yuanzhang said; "the palace, there is a large theater, I out of the first line, the Secretary on the second line." Xie Jin kowtowed: "long live, I comply with the order."

Zhu Yuanzhang read.

Yao Shun net, Tang Wusheng, Huan Wen ugly Dan, the ancient and modern times, a number of actors;

Xie Jin interface will respond:

Sun and moon lights, clouds and clouds color, wind and thunder, drums and boards, the universe a big play.

"Good!" Zhu Yuanzhang was full of joy. And then out of the first line:

Sun in the east, the moon in the west, the heavenly generation of the word "bright";

Xie Jin immediately continued into the next line:

Son in the right, the woman in the left, the world with the "good" people.

Zhu Yuanzhang was immediately pleased, and appreciated.